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vocalize

[voh-kuh-lahyz] / ˈvoʊ kəˌlaɪz /


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This would require your brother-in-law or his wife to vocalize a different desire, which would be quite bold.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

But I could not vocalize a single word.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

They also vocalize to tell their chicks they are back at the nest with food and, seemingly, to cheer on their babies when they’re learning to fly.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2024

“So, I went up on my medicine and I see my therapist. I try to see her every Wednesday, and I try to vocalize a lot when I’m feeling overwhelmed.”

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

We miss him terribly and Geak, being so young, is the only one able to vocalize our loneliness, by continuing to ask for Pa. I am afraid for Geak.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

Take, for example, a chimp who vocalizes and pulls at the bars of their enclosure when someone approaches.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2024

She mostly vocalizes, sometimes on the syllable “ah,” sometimes on “mm” and sometimes — most memorably at the end — on “shh.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

While Bill vocalizes one warning — that getting close to someone is how you get killed in the world of the game — his purpose is to serve as the opposite.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2023

It’s a tale of sound; the song of a solitary whale that vocalizes at a unique frequency, 52 Hertz, that no other whale—as the story goes—can seemingly understand.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2021

Mr. Masefield vocalizes Masefield sentences with the breath of Romans.

From The Critical Game by John Albert Macy

It started with a blowup with contestant Ace Greene after he vocalized his discomfort with Espinal touching him and using terms of endearment, in particular the word “babe.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2025

These vocalizations agitated Rani, who circled and vocalized in a brief burst before collapsing.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2023

At the press opening for the Metropolitan Museum’s beyond-beautiful “Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 B.C.E.-400 C.E.,” five red-robed monks chanted Pali blessings, the vocalized equivalent of oceanic silence.

From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

The researchers set out to see whether there were differences in levels of correlation when “in-cluster” and “out-of-cluster” bats vocalized.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2023

More of the crowd was awake now, and many of them vocalized their support with claps and cheers.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

"It's reacting, it has both eyes open, it's vocalizing, but it's incredibly uncertain and it's scared," he said.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026

It wasn’t until recent weeks that people began really vocalizing their animosity.

From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2026

“I was really just asking people to be who they were, and somehow out of the breath we started vocalizing and doing experiments with how everyone sang and where we sounded good together.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025

Hundreds of billions of dollars were wiped from public markets after prominent CEOs and analysts started publicly vocalizing concerns about an AI bubble.

From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025

Still, decisions about crescendos and decrescendos, tempo, and score reading have to be made, but there are endless possibilities for vocalizing and playing these child-centered compositions.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin


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